Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] not want " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
| 2 | Lawyers and judges talk to each other in ways the prisoner in the dock can not always understand ; doctors diagnose patients for medical students in a language which they know the patient will not follow ( though there are also valid scientific reasons for this ) ; and parents spell out words they do not want children to understand . |
| 3 | It is recognised in planning circles that planning applications for fish and chip shops are contentious and it has been said that whilst ‘ Joe Public wants hot food shops he does not want them near him and he is prepared to fight tooth and nail to stop anyone opening one near his house ’ . |
| 4 | All I said simply slid off the shell into which he retreated when confronted by words he did not want to hear . |
| 5 | From mysteries you do not want to look at . |
| 6 | Above all , however , de Gaulle was worried that under the terms of the Treaty of Rome , the EEC was supposed , in January 1966 , to take more of its decisions by majority votes , which could force France to accept policies she did not want . |
| 7 | In a sense , it is the counterpart of our need for autonomy : while autonomy is the freedom to make things happen , security is the freedom from things we do not want to happen . |
| 8 | Advertising changes society ; makes people buy things they do not want ; enables multinational capitalistic monopolies to batten on the working classes . |
| 9 | The human members of the community are here mainly because out in the commercial world , they had been doing things they did not want to do , using skills they wished they did not have . |
| 10 | People who knew the whole Guérigny family would be bound to stop him and ask him questions he did not want to face . |
| 11 | Desiring to flaunt his new found riches he did not want to be seen owning the house which lies behind — a rambling hotchpotch of roof lines and gables which evolved over centuries . |
| 12 | ‘ These American Sikhs we do not want , ’ said Mrs Puri emphatically . |
| 13 | Instead , they focus their attention on the negative behaviours they do not want . |
| 14 | Petri often quoted the older man 's opinion : ‘ He called me his most genuine pupil and tried everything to further me , recommended me to managers and conductors , sent to me all the pupils he did not want to take , and was instrumental in getting me the appointment of Professor of Piano at the Royal College of Manchester , England , where I remained from 1905 to 1911 ’ . |
| 15 | She told social services she did not want to stay with her mother . |